Murder at the Hodgkinson Gold-field
As the Criminal Sessions of the Northern Queensland Supreme Court, held on 10th December, before his Honor Mr. Instice Shephard, Ebenezer Gibson was indicted for having, on…
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Courts & crime, 1877
406 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 21
Yass Small Debts Court. Tuesday, January 2. Before Mr. Yates, P.M., Mr. Hall, and Mr. Williams
Bartlett and Oddy, brewers, Gonlburn, v. J, Walters, Bowning; a claim for £7 10s., alleged to be due for a hogshead of ale sold and delivered. The defendant appeared in court and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local and General. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Tuesday, January 2. Before Mr. Yates, P.M., Mr. Williams, and Mr. Hall
INDECENT LANGUAGE.--Michael Quinn, a rough looking man, was brought before the court without hat, shoes, or coat, charged with having made use of very wicked and indecent, language…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday, January 3
BEFORE the police-magistrate. William Brown alias Edward Campbell was charged with being drunk and disorderly. There was also another charge against him of uttering a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Goulburn Police Court. Saturday, January 6
BEFORE the police-magistrate. James Smith, a man very much crippled and suffering from severe illness, gave himself up for protection, and confessing to having no means of sup…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yass Police Court Roster
THE following is the roster at the Yass Police Court until the end of the current year. It is printed in such a manner us to make it of easy reference: --…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goulburn Police Court. Friday, January 12
BEFORE the police-magistrate. William Brown alias Edward Campbell, on remand charged with uttering a forged cheque for 5/- to Mrs. Carigan of Merowallen, was again bought…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local and General. Yass Insolvent Court. Friday, January 12. Before Mr. Commissioner Yates
IN RE JAMES BLIZZARD, OF EMU PLAT. This was a first and only meeting for the proof of debts against this estate, for the insolvent to render an account of his insolvency, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goulburn Police Court. Saturday, January 13
BEFORE the police-magistrate. Mary Ellen Dow was charged with being drunk and disorderly. Defendant pleaded not guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yass Insolvent Court. Wednesday, January 17. Before Mr. Commissioner Yates
IN RE DAVID LESEBERO, WATCHMAKER, YASS. This was a meeting for the proof of debts. The insolvent was present, but there were no creditors in attendance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local and General. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Wednesday, January 17. Before Mr. Yates, P.M., Mr. Williams, and Mr. Hall
AILFGED DETENTION OF SHEEP. -- Michael Cusack, of Summer Hill, v. A. F. Remmington, of Hardwicke, for that defendant unlawfully detained, and still did retain, at Hardwicke,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday, January 17
BEFORE the police-magistrate. Robert Jones, an infirm man, aged eighty years, who in November last was sent to the benevolent asylum, but held a discharge from the authorities…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yass Insolvent Court. Friday, January 19. Before Mr. Commissioner Yates
IN RE MICHAEL REA[?]DON, INNKEEPER, YASS. THIS was a special meeting of the creditors of the insolvent for the proof of debts against the estate, and to receive the report of the official…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local and General. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Saturday, January 20. Before Mr. Yates, P.M.
VAGRANCY. -- James Laggan, Edward Vipond, and John Lewis wore placed in the dock, charged under the Vagrant Act. The three were able-bodied men, and strangers to the people of this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goulburn Police Court. Saturday, January 20
BEFORE the police-magistrate. Thomas Davis was brought up under suspicion of being of unsound mind. Senior-sergeant Fenton deposed : On account of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local and General. Yass Court of Petty Sessions. Wednesday, January 24. Before Mr. Yates, P.M., Mr. Williams, and Mr. Hall
ALLEGED HOUSE-BREAKING.-- James Laggan, the individual who figured in our Police Court report of last issue, was placed in the dock, charged with having, on Monday last, feloniously broken…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goulburn Police Court. Wednesday, January 24
BEFORE the police-magistrate. John J[?], a prisoner, released from jail that morning, was brought up, charged with [?] of [?] mind. After hearing the evidence of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Goulburn Police Court. Monday, January 29
BEFORE the police-magistrate and Mr. L. M. Alexander. Mary Jane West, charged with vagrancy and having no visible means of support, was sent to jail for fourteen days…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Centenarian in Yass Gaol
At the spring assizes held at Nenagh, the principal city in the North Riding of the county of Tipperary in 1815, Patrick Murphy, as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yass District Court
THE following is a list of plaints set down for hearing before his Honor Judge McFarland, at the District Court, which will be opened at Yass on Saturday, the 10th instant:--…
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